Buchla 700 Voice Architecture Approximated in Supercollider Code, Part 1 (with tutorial tidbits)

I'm fascinated by the Buchla 700, and was interested in learning Supercollider programming, so I figured I'd try learning Supercollider by trying to implement my (rough guess) of the Buchla 700 architecture, since I was very interested in hearing what its various "Configurations" (equivalent to what Yamaha called "Algorithms" in its famous FM synthesizers) sounded like. I don't assume you have any knowledge of Supercollider before going through the code, but I do assume you're familiar with the basics of programming. I call out some of the "gotchas" I discovered, particularly the pain you can feel like treating Supercollider like it's a more common language. Superficially, Supercollider syntax looks like Java, C, C++, C#, etc. but the semantics are much closer to Smalltalk.

I recorded this primarily for the benefit of the students in my Retrofuturistic Hardware Vertically Integrated Project team, but I made this public in the hopes that others will find it useful as well.

I didn't have time to do much editing on this, so it's somewhat rough and stalls in spots where I'm thinking about what to say or stumbling over a word or two. Hopefully it still flows reasonably well.

[elifieldsteel]

This is awesome! And thank you for the endorsement of my SC tutorials!

[lilskullymane]

an ocean of timbres! thanks for sharing. excited to pick up some more supercollider in the process as well.

[RexCoggins]

Hah! I just picked up ID700 for iPadOS yesterday for my birthday. Great lecture 🤙

[WARDISWARD]

FOr some reason the gui doesn't sow when running the code

[ZetaCarinae]

I'm not sure exactly what you meant, but if you click the upper-left corner of the post window and dock it, then you can drag it below the input window to get what I think is the default vertically split combination.
That order of operations left-to-right, instead of operator precedence, is the only thing I really dislike about SuperCollider.
Thanks so much for the video!

[beatnikcafe]

If anyone would like to collaborate on creating a Hydrasynth approximation using SuperCollider let me know. I’m new to SuperCollider and looking for a challenge and looking to connect with others learning SuperCollider who might find this sort of project interesting. Thanks